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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Manta in Ecuador


Earthquake location -0.6749S, -80.9293WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Manta in Ecuador. Global time and date of event 27/04/16 / 2016-04-27 00:08:13 / April 27, 2016 @ 12:08 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005cdc. Id of event: us10005cdc. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -80.9293 West, latitude -0.6749 South, depth = 10 km. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:08:13 / 7:08 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sucre, Calceta, Santa Ana (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 40 km (25 miles) from Manta (c. 183 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Portoviejo (c. 170 300 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Bahía de Caráquez (c. 37 100 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Jipijapa (c. 35 900 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Montecristi (c. 18 400 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Calceta (c. 17 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days thirty-four, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 37 km NW of Manta, Ecuador.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -80.9293° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -0.6749° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km NW of Manta, Ecuador Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-04-27 00:08:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-05-08 23:51:00 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -300 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 234 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.214 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.48 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 179 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10005cdc Id of event.
Event Code 10005cdc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005cdc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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